

The Northern Lights Don't Perform on Demand
Here is how strategist and leadership mentor Sonja van den Bosch describes the experience of seeing the Northern Lights on my Aurora Tour. (Captions by Ove Lillas) There’s no guarantee. No switch you can turn on. No strategy that forces them to appear. And that’s exactly what makes the experience so powerful. The experience of the Aurora Tour is elevated by the way I do it: far away from lights, sounds and people. Yesterday, we stood in the middle of nowhere close to Nykarleb


A Winter Walk on the Marsh
Have you ever walked across an open marsh? If you have, you know the feeling. And if you haven’t, it’s hard to explain properly—but I’ll try. A marsh (bog/peatland/mire) feels like a world of its own, loosely connected to our everyday reality, as if it exists slightly outside normal time. That is exactly why stepping onto it is so liberating. For a while, you leave the ordinary world behind and enter something quieter, slower, and strangely comforting. On a clear winter day t


When the Frame Tells a Story — But Never Steals the Show
In my studio there are two photo frames that always make people stop for a moment. Not because they are perfect — quite the opposite. They are old window frames, reused and repurposed, carrying the marks of time with them. Scratches, uneven paint, worn wood. Things modern frames usually try hard to hide. These do not. They have charm because they are honest. An old window can be a perfect photo frame. Six aurora photo prints in one frame The first one is a smaller window fram

